393 Pa. Super. 444 - Handschuh v. Albert Development’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently September 2018
18 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Dilliplaine v. Lehigh Valley Trust Co. · Carrender v. Fitterer · Rutter v. Northeastern Beaver County School District · 316 Pa. Super. 565 - Fish v. Gosnell · 374 Pa. Super. 118 - Berman v. Radnor Rolls, Inc.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The essence of assumption of the risk defense is not an evaluation of fault or negligence in encountering a danger but an acknowledgement that the plaintiff changed his position. Before suffering injury “he intelligently acquiesced in a known danger and abandoned his right to complain, but afterwards, seeks to assert the claim he had waived.” Id., 463 A.2d at 1049.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“there was no assumption of an extraordinary risk under circumstances that would imply a waiver of a right to complain.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“risk of cave-in in this particular case was so exigent and obvious”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.